South Sudan is a new country that has many birth-certificates within the archives of the United Nations Organization, one of them is S/RES/1996, which establishes the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS). It is dated before the establishment of the new republic and due to this fact it calls for its actions to be adopted after the proclamation of the new independent state. It sets out to determine the very broad mandate of the mission in the country as well as the several calls for cooperation among the relevant regional actors. The tasks assigned to the mission are related to basic elements of governance, such as specific actions related to institution-building in the region and core government functions, such as basic services.
